Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank, indicating that they have been penalized by Hacker News moderators. See this blog post for a discussion of how Hacker News applies penalties. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms

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French police free kidnapped Ledger executive (moneycheck.com)

×3.48 29 #60 | 153 points by ilamont 3 days ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world's grids (economist.com)

×1.50 42 #47 | 43 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (hallofdreams.org)

×5.03 22 #67 | 238 points by TheCog 4 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump orders release of last JFK, RFK, King assassination files (yahoo.com)

×6.11 60 #72 | 9 points by 2-3-7-43-1807 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim (sgoel.dev)

×1.84 22 #68 | 179 points by siddhant 4 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job (kranga.notion.site)

×5.30 20 #26 | 316 points by Andugal 3 days ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected (caltrain.com)

×3.07 18 #35 | 301 points by ssuds 3 days ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024) (wedistribute.org)

×1.75 18 #29 | 166 points by evolve2k 3 days ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist (bbc.com)

×3.96 15 #90 | 39 points by fzliu 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?

×2.57 11 #61 | 351 points by HughParry 4 days ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact (seangoedecke.com)

×1.91 10 #80 | 82 points by scarface_74 3 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch (byran.ee)

×10.99 9 #52 | 3102 points by Hello9999901 5 days ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion (github.com/ggml-org)

×2.27 7 #89 | 516 points by kgwgk 4 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC? (subwaysheds.com)

×2.20 7 #16 | 121 points by jxmorris12 3 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker infects 18,000 "script kiddies" with fake malware builder (bleepingcomputer.com)

×2.91 9 #11 | 65 points by emschwartz 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Most Mario Colors (lmnt.me)

×3.21 5 #83 | 585 points by ingve 4 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home's front walkway (cnn.com)

×2.55 9 #12 | 36 points by hodgesrm 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Advent of Code 2024 and BQN (neocities.org)

×1.08 5 #13 | 40 points by ingve 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit (theguardian.com)

×2.30 4 #85 | 6 points by n1b0m 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pixelfed Hit 500K Users (fedidb.org)

×2.74 2 #3 | 119 points by doener 3 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial (mstdn.social)

×2.38 1 #70 | 533 points by zdw 4 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Growing my SaaS from 0 to 4k users in 5 months – what worked for me

×2.03 1 #39 | 9 points by felixheikka 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???